Your Yoga Nidra Practice
This is yours. Find a place to lie down and give yourself 30 minutes.
What Is Yoga Nidra Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep. It is a guided practice done lying completely still while your awareness moves inward through progressively deeper layers of consciousness. You are not trying to fall asleep, though it sometimes happens. You are learning to rest in the space between waking and sleeping, where the nervous system can release what ordinary rest does not reach.
The style I practice and teach is rooted in the Amrit Method, developed by Yogi Amrit Desai. What sets it apart is that it does not treat the body as something to get past. It moves through each layer of your being with full respect for what is already there. You are not fixing anything. You are meeting yourself exactly where you are.
Thirty minutes of Yoga Nidra is said to provide the equivalent rest of two to four hours of sleep. That is not a marketing claim. It is a finding from research on delta brainwave activity during the practice.
What To Expect The practice will guide you through a body scan, breath awareness, pairs of opposites, and a journey through the five koshas, the layers of your being from the outermost physical body to the innermost bliss body. You will be invited to set a Sankalpa, a personal intention, at the beginning. Keep it simple. One sentence. Something true.
You may feel like you drifted off. You may feel like nothing happened. Both are normal. The practice is working either way.
Before You Press Play Find a comfortable position lying on your back. A blanket and an eye pillow help. Turn your phone to do not disturb. Tell anyone nearby that you need 30 uninterrupted minutes. This is not indulgent. This is the practice.
Your companion guide is below.
Read it after your practice for the best experience.
You just traveled through five layers of yourself.
Your awareness moved through each of the koshas — from your physical body all the way to the bliss body at the center of everything.
You also passed through all seven chakras.
Most people feel something shift in that section and have no idea why.
The chakras are energy centers that correspond to real regions of your body and real patterns in your life.
When one is blocked, you feel it. When the system is flowing, you feel that too.
We put together a guide that explains all seven in depth — what each one governs, what imbalance looks like in daily life, and a full yin yoga sequence to work the whole system on your mat.
Get the Chakra Guide for only $5.
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